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Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438113494
Presents a collection of critical essays on Williams and his works, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Author : Tennessee Willams,The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop مكتبة الأنجلو المصرية
Publisher : The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811211967
Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). The first, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Award, has proved every bit as successful as William's earlier A Streetcar Named Desire. The other two plays, though different in kind, both have something of the quality of Greek tragedy in 20th-century settings, bringing about catharsis through ritual death.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811226349
All of the author's previously published poems, including poems from the plays, are in this definitive edition that comes with a CD of the author reading some of his poems in his unmistakable Mississippi drawl. Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. It was as a young poet that Williams first came to the attention of New Directions’ founder James Laughlin, who initially presented some of Williams’ verse in the New Directions anthology Five Young American Poets 1944 (before he had any reputation as a playwright), and later published the individual volumes of Williams’s poetry, In the Winter of Cities (1956, revised in 1964) and Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977). In this definitive edition, all of the playwright’s collected and uncollected published poems (along with substantial variants), including poems from the plays, have been assembled, accompanied by explanatory notes and an introduction by Tennessee Williams scholars David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis. The CD included with this paperbook edition features Tennessee Williams reading, in his delightful and mesmerizing Mississippi voice, several of the whimsical folk poems he called his "Blue Mountain Ballads," poems dedicated to Carson McCullers and to his longtime companion Frank Merlo, as well as his long early poem, "The Summer Belvedere."
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811220460
Tennessee Williams's first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822210894
THE STORY: The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject--so far as possible--the realities of life with which she is faced and which s
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 0811217221
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811217086
"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811214222
A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today
Author : Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107493827
This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his last play before his death in 1983, Something Cloudy, Something Clear. In addition to essays on such major plays as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, among others, the contributors also consider selected minor plays, short stories, poems, and biographical concerns. The Companion also features a chapter on selected key productions as well as a bibliographic essay surveying the major critical statements on Williams.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220835
"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters “I cannot write any sort of story,” said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] “unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.” These transgressive Tales of Desire, including “One Arm,” “Desire and the Black Masseur,” “Hard Candy,” and “The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen,” show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822204517
Described as a "tragicomedy", this one-act play is set in a Florida bunkhouse for "permanent transients". The title may be translated as "The Gracious Lady", but the "characters include a kooky society gossip columnist, the frowsy crone who runs the place, a demented former Viennese vaudevillian, a Cocaloony bird (evidently a local name for a pelican) and a tomahawk-brandishing, war-whooping, blond-wigged Indian." -- adapted from publisher's website.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811202224
Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. Tennessee Williams's fame as a playwright has unjustly overshadowed his accomplishment in poetry. This paperback edition of In The Winter of Cities-his collected poems to 1962-permits a wider audience to know Williams the poet. The poems in this volume range from songs and short lyrics to personal statements of the greatest intensity and power. They are rich in imagery and illuminated by the psychological intuition which we know so well from Williams's plays.
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393247121
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' USA Today: 10 Books We Loved Reading Washington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014 The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life—his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin—Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams’s tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:605939862